Web Development

I am part of FF 3.0.3 community but now my favorite browser is Chrome. Fastest and simple. I am the one who hit "Other" option.

I tried Chrome and uninstalled it after one day. I thought it was the worst browser I had ever used, like a giant step-backwards in browser development. "Simple" is not what I need in a broswer. I need "highly functional" "fun to use" "extensible" and "mature".

In fact, I was going to add Google Chrome as an option in the poll, but it was so bad, I thought we would get only one or two "novelty" votes and this was the only one.

In case anyone doesn't know yet, Opera has just released 9.60 (still fresh I think).

Just installed last night. Not much different from 9.5x I think, so if you do not like 9.5x, it is unlikely you will find 9.6 of interest either.

Mozilla Firefox 2 & safari

Before Firefox 3, Safari and Konqueror were my favorite. They had a smaller memory footprint and were a lot faster in rendering.
With Firefox 3, that changed and now I used Fx3 as my primary browser. Still I believe the future is WebKit and not Gecko, that's why every time I'm behind a Windows box I use Chrome.
The things that matter to me in a browser are rendering speed and standard compliance.
Opera is pretty good on the standard compliance part, but when it comes to rendering I find it slower than other browsers. Maybe not rendering, but overall I find Opera a bit sluggish.

If only Microsoft will IE to more standard compliance, IE8 is a step forward but still not there yet.

Well, I think you should have given it more of a chance.

Remember it is only the first public beta.

I'm very impressed with it, love the minimal interface and the speed. I think the layout makes a lot more sense with the address bar being on the tab (where it belongs, logically). Despite being minimal, it has nearly everything I need in a browser. I use it 99% of the time on my work PC, but have stuck with FF3 at home for some variety. I like the default home page with the automatically maintained thumbnails of my most recently visited sites. I like the way when you search a very long page it highlights the parts of the scrollbar where matches are found on the page. The inspector is interesting, as is the internal task/resource manager. I like being able to drag tabs off the tab bar to create a new window, and then back on to it again. I like being able to resize text entry fields like the one I'm typing in now. I like the way form fields glow when they are focussed, and the way status bars and 'find' dialogs occupy minimal space and go away when they're no longer needed.

The only things I miss are some little things, like right-clicking on a page or image and choosing properties does not display it's size in bytes (can't find that anywhere!). And sometimes when you hit the back button when browsing a web page with frames it doesn't go back within the frame, but back in the outer context... but I suspect that bug will be squashed soon enough.

Well, a "minimalist" browers is not my requirement.

As mentioned before, I like FF3 because of the add-ons, not because it is a minimalist, simple browser, LOL.

I use many FF3 add-ons, including FireBug, FireFTP, WebDeveloper, ... and more that make my browser a fully functional development tooll that can debug JavaScripts, PHP, HTTP and more. I can upload files to a remote server from a browser tab.

So, I understand if you don't need these tools and greatly respect your perspective, but I will not use Chrome, for me, it is a Volkswagon, when I need a Jaguar, in my browser ;-)

In other words, I used Chrome enough to know it is not for me :-)